Seroprevalence of reproductive tract infections in women in northern India - A relatively low prevalence area [3]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 497-498

  Sharma, M ^a   Sethi, S ^a   Gopalan, S ^b   Gulati, K ^b   Lyall, S ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Dept Med Microbiol Obstet G ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0347510697     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.79.6.497     Document Type: Letter

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